Creating an Ecosystem

14-18 yrs old

Science

Create an ecosystem with all necessary abiotic, biotic, terrestrial and aquatic requirements for it to be self sustaining

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May 1, 2017

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Skills

Collaboration
Creativity
Critical Thinking

Learning Objectives

Understand ecosystem requirements for it to be self sustaining

Guiding Ideas

What does an ecosystem need in order to function?

What happens when you remove certain components of the ecosystem?

Identify the reactions as you remove individual components

Student Activities

Create an ecosystem. Model it after ecosystems that you know of in our local area.

Performance Expectations

be able to identify biotic/abiotic components of ecosystems
be able to identify terrestrial and aquatic components of an ecosystem
be able to think critically about the impact of addition/subtraction of ecosystem components
identify links from biotic to abiotic
identify links from biotic to biotic
identify links and food chains
think critically about structures of food chains and food webs

Skills

Collaboration
Creativity
Critical Thinking

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